Ben Bloom
Sports Journalist at Freelance
Freelance sports journalist, formerly at the Telegraph. Author of 'Batting for Time'. Buy the book here: https://t.co/UGm7CDp4SX
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1 day ago |
observer.co.uk | Ben Bloom
Over the course of a county season, an alarming amount of cricket takes place at Taunton with two of Somerset’s most promising young players mere observers. Will Smeed and Shoaib Bashir can count themselves fortunate to be forging professional paths in the present era. Indeed, Smeed last year admitted he would likely have been moved on from his childhood county if the game remained as it had always been: all high elbows and occupying the crease.
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2 days ago |
premierleague.com | Ben Bloom |Adrian Clarke
With Burnley formally confirmed as a Premier League team on 4 June, football writers Ben Bloom and Adrian Clarke look at the club's history, key players and what we can expect from Scott Parker's side in 2025/26. Club analysis: BurnleyOriginsOne of 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888, Burnley had begun life as a rugby club before switching codes to football in 1882.
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3 days ago |
premierleague.com | Ben Bloom
Football writer Ben Bloom retraces Liam Delap's route from promising rugby player and athlete to one of the Premier League's top strikers, now signed by UEFA Champions League qualifiers Chelsea. It has always been about size for Liam Delap. Back in his early teenage years, Delap’s school rugby coach would simply instruct his players to pass the ball to the boy already built like a man and watch opposition players crumble at his imposing stature.
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Ben Bloom
Now minnows have thumped beleaguered Lancashire, missing out on promotion is becoming unthinkable Early last year, when he churlishly compared non-Test counties’ reliance on centralised funding to “heroin addicts”, Lancashire chief executive Daniel Gidney was able to luxuriate in his club’s ingrained lofty standing in the natural pecking order of cricket’s shires. Gidney did not identify the drug-addled counties by name because there was little need.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Bloom
Along a sun-dappled canal towpath in picturesque Hertfordshire countryside, a grey-brown bob rises and falls with the effortless bounce of a lithe, spectacled figure gliding her way past dog-walkers and afternoon ramblers. There is a watch – one of those smart-technology devices capable of producing all sorts of unnecessary metrics – on Sarah Roberts’s wrist, but she has forgotten to switch it on. Roberts, a grandmother of five, tends not to take note of such things.
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Why are netball umpires paid to officiate on local park courts, but only given expenses when overseeing the elite? A piece for @ObserverUK on the success - and teething problems - of the relaunched 'Netball Super League 2.0'. https://t.co/JnOkZ97zZy
Ahead of this weekend's World Relay Championships, a chat with Asha Philip for @AthleticsWeekly... on guiding Britain's next sprint generation, TV presenting at the Paris Olympics and potential retirement plans (not yet). https://t.co/Dnlnyg9TF9 https://t.co/XLRf1gG4sC
A debut outing for @WisdenAlmanack, on whether county members owning clubs is (or could soon be) nearing an end. https://t.co/lyLP1tPxgL